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Despite the pervasive high incidence of poverty, Paraguay has not responded adequately to the need to develop a policy …, aimed at providing effective protection to the population. In recent decades the social protection policies in Paraguay were … Paraguay result from an approach to the problem, characterized by the absence of an integral strategic vision. The sector …
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This paper investigates the impact of the pilot phase of Paraguay's conditional cash transfer programme, Tekoporã, on …
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accumulation dynamics using unique panel data from Paraguay. The results suggest that farm growth varies systematically with farm …
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In this paper I apply Porto (2006) to Paraguay using household level data. The aim is to assess the distributional …
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During the 2000s Paraguay experienced slow economic growth but improved all labour market indicators. The growth … process was erratic. Paraguay underwent a macroeconomic crisis at the beginning of the period, a recession as a consequence of …
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inequality. In this article, we identify Paraguay's structural constraints and opportunities for economic diversification and … how feasible and desirable are different types of new products and economic diversification strategies for Paraguay. To … relatedness of 763 SITC products to Paraguay's current product structure. To estimate the desirability of each product, we measure …
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, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and … and vigorous productivity growth seems to be a necessary condition to meet the poverty MDG by 2015 in Argentina, Paraguay …
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Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents that greater female bargaining power within households results in a variety of shifts in household production and consumption. An important source of intrahousehold bargaining...
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This essay assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are used to derive efficiency measures. Smaller farms are found to have higher net farm income per hectare, and to be more technically efficient, than larger farms.
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